ORONO — The University of Maine Foster Center for Innovation seeks Maine students and companies to participate in the 2022 Innovate for Maine Fellows internship program; applications are available. Innovate for Maine connects the best and brightest Maine college students with Maine’s most exciting growing companies for paid, meaningful, hands-on internship experiences, according to a […]
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Waterville issues Feb. 4 winter parking ban
Waterville Public Works asks that the Concourse and all streets downtown be kept clear of parking from midnight to 6 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4, to allow for snow clean up by the WPW crew, according to a news release from the department. Overnight parking is permitted at the Head of Falls Municipal Parking Lot. For […]
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Lincoln County lecture series honors Black History Month
Lincoln County Historical Association’s annual Winter Lecture Series features two talks this month that focus on Black people in the history of Maine. On Thursday, Feb. 10, historian Bob Green will reveal details about Black people in Maine that seldom appear in history texts, according to a news release from the Lincoln County Historical Association. […]
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Wiscasset gallery receives grant from arts commission
The Maine Arts Commission has awarded Wiscasset’s Maine Art Gallery $8,700 in support of the commission’s goal of strengthening the state’s creative workforce. The matching grant will enable the gallery to fund more time for the organization’s part-time gallery manager from December through June, as well as fees for class instructors and honorariums for exhibit […]
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Hospice to offer Valentine’s Day workshop for grieving children
WATERVILLE — Hope’s Place for grieving children, a program of Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area, plans to offer a Valentine’s Day workshop from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Hospice Community Center, 304 Main St. This workshop will give children the opportunity to create a clay heart ornament to remember their loved […]
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Winthrop society displays photos from 1952 blizzard
A Winthrop Maine Historical Society business meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, via Zoom. The society is displaying photographs Roland LaVallee of Winthrop took for the Kennebec Journal newspaper, according to a news release from the historical center. The exhibit features the “Blizzard of ’52” when, that Feb. 18, the KJ reported […]
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Farmington university’s writers series to host award-winning poet
The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series plans to present award-winning poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc as the program’s fourth reader of the 2021/22 season. Fay-LeBlanc will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center on South Street, according to a news release from […]
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Friends of Merrymeeting Bay to host Trout Unlimited speaker
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s fifth presentation of its 25th annual Winter Speaker Series, “Restoring the Lower Androscoggin River,” is scheduled to feature Steve Heinz of Trout Unlimited, Maine Chapter, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9. The series presentations are being held via Zoom. To access the event, visit fomb.org. The group hosts its free series […]
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Woman veterans town hall, public forum to be held virtually
VA Maine Healthcare System has planned a town hall and public forum for women veterans at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, online or by phone. VA Maine has comprehensive care for women veterans throughout the state, according to an event news release from the VA Maine Healthcare System. This includes a GYN surgeon that is […]
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Gardiner student makes Florida college campus dean’s list
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Zyrah Giustra of Gardiner has been named to the 2021 fall-quarter dean’s list at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Florida campus in Port Orange, Florida. Palmer College of Chiropractic also has campuses in Davenport, Iowa and San Jose, California.